At the Hubei Provincial Transportation Half-Year Situation Analysis Meeting held yesterday, it was revealed that in the first half of the year, Hubei Province completed an investment of 49.95 billion yuan in highways and waterways, accounting for 62% of the annual target.
The province's expressways completed an investment of 15.04 billion yuan, with 29 expressways under construction totaling 989 kilometers, and the total length of built and under-construction expressways reached 7,193 kilometers. The Jingjiang waterway regulation was successfully completed, the "645" project's "Qichun Waterway" project was approved, the thousand-ton waterway regulation below Nianpanshan on the Han River was fully completed, and Baiyang Port, Qichun Port, and Xiantao Port successively opened for operation.
Hubei Province also built 208 kilometers of first-class highways and 563 kilometers of second-class highways, newly reconstructed and upgraded 6,722 kilometers of rural roads, implemented 11,363 kilometers of highway safety projects, and established 3,726 ETC customer service outlets, with users exceeding 2.35 million.
In terms of targeted poverty alleviation, the province's 4,500 kilometers of village-level industrial roads were completed three years ahead of schedule; new breakthroughs were made in transportation financing, with a total of 16.39 billion yuan in ministerial and provincial subsidies secured, and an additional 5 billion yuan in government bond funds to be allocated soon.